EXCERT from Ethical Ambition © 1998 by Ronald Rainson:
Seek input
without abdicating your management responsibilities.
It has been my experience that when management
groups first meet, they are anxious to
show cooperation and will move
rapidly toward consensus. As they
listen to each other's views and realize
how different they are, the consensus
begins to evaporate.
It is your task, as a manager and a
practitioner of Committee Assisted
Management, to identify that point at which the
participants are or were in closest accord. It is
unrealistic to expect them
to reach complete consensus by forcing them to
continue
to meet. If their near-consensus
is compatible with your own observations, a decision
is at hand.
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